GP comment was clearly directed in support of a decentralized "winning tech will win without the need and costs of centralized government planning".
My Nissan LEAF is wildly cheaper (~40-70% cheaper) to operate per-mile than my wife's very sensible Honda CR-V. Her car is wildly cheaper all-in because it's a 2005 vs the 2015 LEAF. Give it 5 more years for the common electrics to be readily and plentifully available on the used market and this will even out. The electric cars are already coming. Quickly.
This is all happening without the need for a government program to guarantee a job with the government for anyone who wants one as the article pitches as an essential part of the "Green New Deal". (What does a government job have to do with sea level rise either?)
> This is all happening without the need for a government program to guarantee a job with the government for anyone who wants one as the article pitches as an essential part of the "Green New Deal".
If we're going to decarbonize the economy at a decent rate, we most likely will need to find a just solution for those whose jobs will be disappearing under them (e.g. workers in the fossil fuel industry).
See the riots in France for what happens when you give tax cuts to the rich and try to make the working classes pay for decarbonizing.
Some kind of federal job guarantee could be a way to guarantee some amount of income for displaced workers.
IMO, by setting desired outcomes and incentives, not by mandating specific solutions and certainly not by creating a government jobs program to create the solutions that the government dictates are "the winner".
I don't want ocean levels or carbon levels to be the next Joint Strike Fighter...
GP comment was clearly directed in support of a decentralized "winning tech will win without the need and costs of centralized government planning".
My Nissan LEAF is wildly cheaper (~40-70% cheaper) to operate per-mile than my wife's very sensible Honda CR-V. Her car is wildly cheaper all-in because it's a 2005 vs the 2015 LEAF. Give it 5 more years for the common electrics to be readily and plentifully available on the used market and this will even out. The electric cars are already coming. Quickly.
This is all happening without the need for a government program to guarantee a job with the government for anyone who wants one as the article pitches as an essential part of the "Green New Deal". (What does a government job have to do with sea level rise either?)